Perjury in Family Courts

From: Anatoly Kern

July 21, 2013

Dear Ministry of Justice,

Based on the publicly available information (http://www.netlaw.co.nz/family.cfm?PageI...) New Zealand Courts regard perjury and the related charges, as very serious and it is almost inevitable that you will go to prison if you are convicted of any of these charges.
Per the same information the Police and the Court will act very strongly to bring anyone who has committed such an offence to justice because they believe that our whole system of justice breaks down if someone is lying on oath or conspires to pervert the course of justice.

I am interested in understanding the reality of this statements in relation to the Family Court and would like to request the following information:

1. Number of references made to New Zealand Police by Family Court Judges based on perjury revealed during family court proceedings for the past 10 years with per year separation.

Based on a number of comments from Family Court Judges it is quite common to see perjury within family courts.

2. I doubt that any has been done, but just in case I am wrong with understanding the real situation with perjury in family courts and there have been number of such references made, I would like to request the following additional information for each of such references:
a) Reference to original family court case/report on it from which such reference is originating.
b) Reference to a criminal prosecution case raised by Police with outcome of it.

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That will be court record data - as in to get it, you would have to physically go through each file for each perjury case to find out which court the perjury occurred in. Something you'll likely have to do yourself.

I attempted to defend a protection order in gisborne family court july 2015, my ex lied profusively in statements, throughout the entire court proceedings, I told nothing but the truth & was accused by the judge of perjury & then the following day, the police at my new job, 1 yr police harrasment, no case eventuated, now they will not take a complaint of multiple perjury off me against her, its fucked.......